Zitat des Tages von Loni Love:
There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.
The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.
I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!
The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.
I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.
I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.
I am the funny, crazy person.
People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.
It's always good to laugh.
I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.
I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.
I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.
We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.
I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
I am a seasoned performer.
I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
I do talk about celebrity relationships like Kim Kardashian's. I like to find the humor in love.
Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.
Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.
With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.
At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.
I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.
I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.
I made the conscious decision to not have kids, and I didn't want to be married.
The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.